Microsoft Windows 2000 is the easy way to Internet-enable your business. As businesses come to rely more and more on the Internet, they have the opportunity to grow, extend their networks to partners and customers, and consider new ways to bring their products and services to market. To take advantage of these opportunities, businesses need an infrastructure that can readily respond to market forces, delivers high reliability, efficient management, ease of use, and supports the latest advances in networking hardware. And to pursue these opportunities, businesses want to build on their existing investments in skills and systems. Microsoft Windows 2000 is designed to meet these needs for businesses of all sizes, from small, centralized organizations to the largest distributed enterprise. Windows 2000 integrates standards-based directory, Web, application, network, file and print services with powerful end-to-end management and reliability to provide the best foundation for integrating your business with the Internet.

The Internet Connector option provides for non-commercial, non-employee, and non-authenticated access to a server through the Internet.